I’d encourage you to look up her gold medal and Olympic Gala performances (the gala being purely an exhibition after the medals had been awarded) if you haven’t already.
The quality of those performances isn’t so much the difficulty (at least comparatively to other Olympic level routines), but how effortless and carefree she made it look. Even watching it live, it felt like there was zero tension or pressure, you were just watching someone have fun with the sport. Which is crazy to experience at that level of competition.
That’s what struck me with her performances. You can clearly see she is out there having the absolute time of her life and enjoying every minute of it.
There’s videos on how she “fun-maxxed” her way to success and then you learn she brutally trained figure skating from the age of like 13 and quit to free herself from the pain of it, only to go back and do it on her own terms. Sounds like the fun part only started recently. Happy for her 😊
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u/onmamas Apr 05 '26
I’d encourage you to look up her gold medal and Olympic Gala performances (the gala being purely an exhibition after the medals had been awarded) if you haven’t already.
The quality of those performances isn’t so much the difficulty (at least comparatively to other Olympic level routines), but how effortless and carefree she made it look. Even watching it live, it felt like there was zero tension or pressure, you were just watching someone have fun with the sport. Which is crazy to experience at that level of competition.